ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 62

                                             ONE HEARTBEAT                                      AWAY

           PART 62


(Mark Cahill's Book)

Tenth Commandment

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife,
nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, 
nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is 
thy neighbour's 
(Exodus 20:17)

Coveting - desiring something that is not 
rightfully ours - opens up the floodgates
for so many sins in our lifetime. We covet 
something before we steal, we covet 
someone before we commit adultery. We 
covet something and are tempted to 
disobey our parents or the law of the land
to get it. 

Coveting involves craving to get life's 
possessions or life's circumstances - success, marriage, fame, - in a wrong way. 

Advertisers work on people's hopes and desires to get the to buy a product. If that hope is awakened in people they may begin coveting -being envious or jealous of what others have. The wrong next step is taking what you want, rather than earning or doing without. We slap God in the face and display disatisfaction over what He has decided to give us. God is looking at your heart.

Have you ever in your life broken this Commandment?

God tells us :

But we are all as an unclean thing , abd all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; and we do all fade as a leaf; 
and our iniquities, like the wind, have 
taken us away.
(Isaiah 64:6) 

Our sin has become a 
stench to God. We are 
all unclean. We could do   

millions of good deeds, 
but they do not have the 
power to wipe away one 
sin from our life. 

Jerry Springer once said: "A lot of people are  to heaven. Why Because if I go then everybody goes.
Springer may want to joke about it, but it is not a joke. By saying this, he reveals that at least he knows that most people
think that God's standard for going to heaven is that you have to be good - but he isn't taking that standard seriously.

And now you know that standard, and the question to ask yourself is ; How do I measure up?

Mark Twain said it wasn't the part of the Bible he didn't understand, but the part that he did understand, that troubled him the most!

What a statement!  None of us knows everything about God's Word. But when each of us looks at the Ten Commandments, God's Law, we find it most troubling, that even if we have broken just one of them, it is just as though we had broken all of them.

What?  Is that true? 
Here is what God has said about it:

......whosoever shall keep the whole Law !and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (James 2:10)

Another point that may surprise you is that being religious, or doing good works, or being an active member of a congregation or denomination, or contributing to good causes has zero impact on whether or not  we get into heaven. 

Here is what Jesus said about that;

Not everyone that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father Which is in heaven.

Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name?  And in Thy Name hath cast out devils?  And in Thy Name done many wonderful works? 

And then I will profess unto them . I never knew you: depart from Me you who work iniquity?  
(Matthew 7: 21-23)

If being religious won't help us, what will? That passage from the Bible lets us know that hell is going to catch many people by surprise. Will you be one of those people?

Our search for eternal truth is getting closer and closer to finding the right answer,

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